Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Hindi baat

Advance warning: Non-Hindi readers, pl skip post as it turned out to be too long to include translations.

Prologue: Daddy dearest has lived all his life in the land of Tamils except for a brief 11 months stint in training school, BARC at Chembur, Mumbai. Mommy has lived in the north of Vindhyas only vicariously through the Hindi movies of the '70s. Here is a record of some of their Hindi 'Laughter is the best medicine' type stories! PS: Any movie makers looking for material for a Southie spoof, here are your answers!

btw in line with this is the story of a very tall K we both know and who's hindi vocab is restricted to only some very flowery abuses. during his summer internship in delhi someone on the road has asked him"bhaisahab, time kitna hua hai""chaar chaalis paanch" says our helpful friend. he of course meant 4:45!!!!:) :) :)

Hilarious! My dad has made that pachees/ pachaas mistake - only dhai instead of dedh. One of my tambram friends, whenever stranded in the North would plaintively say "Mera Hindi maloon nahin". he claimed that would get a better response than saying it correctly!